Altera Ships Lowest Power FPGAs With Security Features Including Anti-Tamper, Design-Security and Design-Separation Capabilities
San Jose, Calif., June 29, 2009—Expanding its leadership position in low-power solutions, Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced a new low-power FPGA family with security features. The new Altera® Cyclone® III LS FPGAs offer the highest logic, memory, and DSP density per board [...]
June 2009 Archives
Daily Wireless reports that AT&T Mobility will resell satellite service and phones from TerreStar Networks, by the end of this year. TerreStar is scheduled to launch its first monster satellite on July 1st. It uses satellite/cellular handsets designed to be about the same size as a conventional smartphone.
Using licensed 2GHz radio spectrum, it will provide [...]
China Knowledge reports Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, a major telecom equipment vendor in China, announced on Friday that it has won a contract from Finland’s TeliaSonera AB to deploy Europe’s first GSM/UMTS converged network based on Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology.
Under the contract, Huawei will deploy its SingleRAN solution which will allow TeliaSonera to simultaneously provide [...]
The product page says: The CN50 is built on a unique multiprocessor architecture with dedicated ARM and DSP processors to deliver robust application processing with nearly instantaneous response, all at the lowest levels of power consumption. The standard battery is suitable for uninterrupted full shift use in most applications. For extreme-duty applications, the extended-life battery [...]
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - June 22, 2009 - Tensilica, Inc. today introduced a new family of high-performance DSPs (digital signal processors) IP (intellectual property) cores - the ConnX DSP family - that include standard cores, click-box configurable options or a starting point for customized Xtensa LX DPUs (dataplane processor units) for SOC (system-on-chip) [...]
Integration of third parties’ software with TI DSPs offers femtocell OEMs reduced costs and faster time to market
Femtocells World Summit, LONDON (June 23, 2009) - Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) announced today the selection of Continuous Computing®, a leader in wireless protocol software, and mimoOn GmbH, a leader in software defined radio [...]
I have finally begun the liberating experience of converting from Microsoft Windows-based installations to Linux. My final straw was constantly watching my CPU peg on an IBM X61s core duo 1.8GHz laptop with 4GB of physical memory. I can honestly say my user experience is worse on this machine than the 1983 IBM PC I [...]
Hong Kong: CSL Limited (CSL), Hong Kong’s leading mobile operator, and ZTE, a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, have been awarded the prestigious National Mobile Services Award for Wireless Network Infrastructure at the GTB Innovation Awards from Global Telecoms Business in London.
“ZTE has been working together with CSL to achieve the goal [...]
Available now for licensing???…
Description of Invention:
To date, many of the approaches to software-defined radio have primarily focused on baseband features, leaving RF subsystems intact. Some current technologies combine many radio-unique baseband and RF features to realize a multifunctional radio. Such an approach is costly and inefficient in terms of power utilization and weight. Realizing a [...]
Waveform Code and Documentation to be Available in the JTRS Open Information Repository
BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA – (Marketwire - June 18, 2009) - Spectrum Signal Processing by Vecima (”Spectrum”) (TSX:VCM), an advanced custom radio provider, announced today that the Future Multiband Multiwaveform Modular Tactical Radio (FM3TR) waveform has been successfully ported to Spectrum’s flexCommTM SDR-4000 software reconfigurable transceiver. Researchers [...]
Microwaves & RF reports Military applications often push technologies to their limits. Applications such as electronic warfare (EW), radar, communications, and surveillance have made demands on RF/microwave technologies over the years, causing oscillator manufacturers [...]
Shameless plug…
The SDR Forum announced that Dr. John Glossner of Sandbridge Technologies has accepted an appointment as General Chair of the SDR ‘09 technical Conference and Product Exposition.
Leuven, Belgium – June 4, 2009 – IMEC has demonstrated spectrum sensing functions, using an experimental setup including its integrated reconfigurable radio platform. The setup senses information on spectrum occupancy from UMTS and WLAN signals in specific bands. It retrieves information on the frequency and bandwidth, with estimates for power and noise. The system includes [...]
EE Times Europe reports … the test cases developed earlier in the design process can be reused to test the final implementation. Hence, testing and verification of the design against requirements happens throughout the process instead of at the end. For example, engineers at BAE Systems working on a software defined radio (SDR) system were [...]
Northrop Grumman announced The integrated CNI system that was delivered to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics has nearly 500,000 lines of software and incorporates the Joint Tactical Radio System software architecture. Delivered capabilities include Ultra High Frequency/Very High Frequency receive and transmit, IFF transponder, radar altimeter, tactical air navigation (TACAN) and system hardware and software diagnostics.
